Industry News

Nokia Completes NAVTEQ Takeover
Nokia’s acquisition of NAVTEQ is now complete (previously; via Engadget)…. »
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 7:44 AM
Categories: Industry News
Link Roundup: Early July Edition
Off camping for a few days; here are a few links to tide you over: Roger Hart’s very good blog, GeoCarta, has moved to a new address and a new platform. The Sandusky Library Archives Research Center’s map collection is… »
Posted on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 6:44 PM
Categories: Blogs, Books, GIS, Hacks & Mashups, Industry News, Libraries, Triangulations (Links)
Working Cartographers
From the Times’s career section, an article featuring two people working in the cartography field: Jon Ford, a survey geologist with the British Geological Survey, and Edward Mainwaring, a cartographer with the Ordnance Survey…. »
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 5:53 AM
Categories: Earth Sciences, Industry News, Surveying
TomTom DealDeal ClearedCleared
TomTom has received the go-ahead from the European Commission for its takeover of Tele Atlas: AP, Bloomberg, Reuters. In a nutshell, the existence of a competitor, Navteq/Nokia, would remove any incentive on the part of the merged TomTom/Tele Atlas to… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Categories: Industry News
TomTom-Tele Atlas Update
All Points Blog has a roundup of the seemingly contradictory news stories about the TomTom-Tele Atlas merger and the European Commission. Previously: EU Formally Objects to TomTom-Tele Atlas Deal; EU Investigates TomTom-Tele Atlas Deal…. »
Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 6:51 PM
Categories: Industry News
DeLorme Profiled
Another profile of map publisher (and now GPS maker) DeLorme, this time from the Bangor Daily News’s Bill Graves. DeLorme got its start mapping Maine, so no surprise that the Maine media likes to cover the company’s history: local success… »
Posted on Sunday, April 13, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Categories: GPS, Industry News, Publishers
European Commission Probes Nokia-Navteq Merger
The Nokia-Navteq merger is also the subject of a European Commission probe; the Commission announced Friday that it had “serious doubts” about how the merger would affect competition: Chicago Tribune (via Slashgeo), Reuters (via Engadget). You will recall that the… »
Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 12:14 PM
Categories: Industry News
Market Share
In January, Hitwise reported on the relative market shares of the online map sites. MapQuest continued to lead with more than 50 percent of the market, with Google Maps second at 22 percent, and Yahoo and Microsoft trailing. But,… »
Posted on Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Categories: GPS, Industry News, Online Maps
EU Formally Objects to TomTom-Tele Atlas Deal
Reuters reports that the European Commission has sent a statement of objections to TomTom over its proposed takeover of Tele Atlas. This is not an outright rejection; TomTom now has until May 5 to offer additional remedies to assuage EU… »
Posted on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 4:43 PM
Categories: Industry News
Market Doubts About Nokia-Navteq Merger
There are stock market doubts about the Nokia-Navteq merger, according to a piece in Medill Reports (which is written by graduate journalism students). “According to [Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Yair] Reiner, Nokia has yet to file for antitrust clearance by… »
Posted on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Categories: Industry News
WSJ on Navteq and Tele Atlas
Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story on the digital map “duopoly,” Navteq and Tele Atlas — it starts and finishes like so many local profiles of digital map surveying, but the meat of the article is a… »
Posted on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 10:36 AM
Categories: Industry News
EU Investigates TomTom-Tele Atlas Deal
With Garmin out of the picture, you’d think that TomTom’s proposed takeover of Tele Atlas would be free of further complications, but no: European Union regulators are investigating the deal over competitive concerns; they’re expected to rule by next April…. »
Posted on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 9:09 AM
Categories: Industry News
Garmin to Tele Atlas: Never Mind
Garmin has withdrawn its $3.3-billion bid for Tele Atlas, leaving TomTom free to nab the company. Instead, Garmin has struck a deal with Navteq, their current map data supplier, to guarantee access to that data through 2015. Via Engadget. Update:… »
Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Categories: Industry News
Garmin Challenges TomTom for Tele Atlas
Three months after TomTom’s €1.8-billion bid for Tele Atlas, Garmin is making a play for the digital mapping data company, with a $3.3-billion bid of its own — a bid fueled by a concern that Garmin not be forced to… »
Posted on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Categories: Industry News
Nokia Acquires Navteq
When it was announced last July that TomTom would acquire Tele Atlas for €1.8 billion, Navteq was widely seen as the next acquisition target. The only question was, by whom. The answer is Nokia, which announced today that it was… »
Posted on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Categories: Industry News
TomTom MergerMerger
Yesterday’s big news was TomTom’s offer of €1.8 billion for fellow Dutch company Tele Atlas. Not really a surprise, given the growth in business of online maps and navigation devices. If the merger goes through, Tele Atlas will continue to… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 10:15 PM
Categories: Industry News

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